Corset



(No Model.)

A. M. KING.

CORSET.

No. 594,177. Patented Nov. 23,1897.-

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CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 594,177, dated November23, 1897.

Application filed June 3, 1895.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ABBIE M. KING, acitizen of the United States,residing at Logan, in the county of Harrison and State of Iowa, haveinvented a new and useful Corset, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in corsets, whichare embraced in a corset made as hereinafter described and as delineatedin the claim.

The objects of my said improvements are, first, to provide a corsetsimple in its construction, easily and conveniently adjusted, andwithout mobility or shifting while worn; second, a corset securingsymmetry of form and affording a stay andsupport to the trunk andabdomen with ease and comfort to the wearer and yielding adjustments atany desirable point; third, a corset by the proper use of which the formand figure of the wearer may be molded and fashioned to please andgratify the individual taste and fancy, obesity reduced to the minimum,and the lean and lank agreeably rounded out, and the health improved andpromoted.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents the respective partscomposing the left side and one half of my improved corset; Fig. 2, therespective part-s composing the left and one half the front whenconnected; Fig. 3, the left and one half the back when connected. Fig. 4shows the front fastenings, and Fig. 5 shows the full left half of thecorset completely connected and the buckle and strap fastenings at theback.

The parts a, b, b, and 0 form one half of the front of the corset. c, e,f, and 9 form one half of the back. The front and back sections areconnected by the under-arm piece cl by joining thereto the adjacentedges of c and c. The part 2', in conjunction with the upper adjacentsides of b and b, forms the bust, and o and o are elastic connections.The other half of the corset is an exact counterpart of the onerepresented, but is adapted to conform to the opposite side of thewearer and is furnished with the opposite fastenings suitable to engagethose of the side repre sented. The parts 6 and f are united from thewaist-line to the bottom of the corset proper by elastic connections,such as 0, and the partso and b are united in the same Serial no.551,539. (No model.)

manner, from the top of the corset to the depth of the bust, as shown inthe drawings. The parts I) and I) over the bust are out convexly tocorrespond with the convex margins or edges of the part 1', which givesthe spring or swell required in this part of the corset. The part 9 isprojected under the buckles m and prevents any catching or gathering ofthe undergarments in adjusting the back fastenings.

m shows a series of buckles, each independent of the other, and n asimilar series of straps attached to the opposite back partcorresponding to f.

h indicates a shoulder-strap projected from the top of the part c, and han elastic strap or tip, and j a buckle to engage and fasten the same,which is fastened to the top of the part Z).

p represents a strong elastic border joined to the corset, as shown inFig. 5.

' Cords and stays, either or both, and the usual steels are used in themanufacture of this corset. The shoulder-strap may be discarded, ifdesired, and it is also manufactured in the styles known as high and lowhip sections. The form, however, generally adopted and the form I favoris that shown in the drawings. It is also made in low-bust sections. Atthe front side of part a is in serted a wide fiat steel, and in a foldof the material and resting upon the back edge of this steel the claspis introduced with the pinheads projecting outward through the coveringwhich forms the front fastening pertaining to that side of the corset.The clasp completing this fastening and pertaining to the other side ofthe corset, as s, is secured at the inside and back of the frontprojection, so that when the clasps are engaged, as shown in Fig. 4, asurface nearly smooth is attained, and the person and clothing of thewearer are protected from injury by accidental breaking of the clasps orWearing away of the covering of the same.

The parts b and b are more particularly described as follows: At thewaist-line their respective margins are cut concavo-concave, and belowthis their respective margins are cut convexo-convex. The part c widensfrom the waist-line to the bottom, and the margins are slightly convex,all of which is full and particularly shown by the drawings. Thisprovides a perfect and natural fit for the abdomen covered by this partof the corset. The required spring in that part or section of the corsetover the hip is produced by cutting the respective margins of the partsa, e, and f below the waistline and joining a and f by the elasticconnections 0, each part respectively as shown in the drawings. By theconnecting under-arm piece d of the front and back sections. of thecorset, Figs. 2 and 3, having its lateral margins cut, as shown in thedrawings in Fig. 1, the breadth of which may be varied at its topwaist-line and bottom, the corset is adapted to the natural form of orto give form to the wearer, as may be fancied.

The corset is manufactured with and without the elastic border 1), tosuit the demand of the customer.

I am cognizant of the fact that heretofore use has been made of some ofthe matters and things which I have shown and describedsuch asshoulder-straps, buckles, and straps and possibly some form of elasticconnections-and I do not claim such matters broadly; but I believemyself to be the first to have produced the principal parts and soarranged them which I have combined as to produce a corset having allthe advantageous features incident to the one I have shown anddescribed.

In my improved corset provision is made for its adaptation to the bustsand abdomens of persons of different sizes by a very simple constructionand arrangement of parts. The proper swell over the bust is obtained byusing a single piece t, which has convex edges united to similar edgesof the pieces I) Z) between the same above the waist-line. The piece z'for corsets of difierent sizes is made according to the size of theperson by whom the corset is to be worn. The front and back sections ofone half of the corset are united together by the under-arm piece (1,which, as shown by Fig. 1, is of double tapered form from the waist-lineboth above and below the same, and this under-arm piece 01 between thefront and back sections of the corset also provides for readily adaptingthe corset to persons of different sizes, because said under-arm piececl may be made of varying sizes.

I attach importance to the provision in my corset of a single-piecebust-piece insertible between adjacent edges of the front sections 1) band to the employment of the under-arm piece 01 to connect the front andback sections of the corset, because such pieces enable me to makecorsets of diflerent sizes without changing the other sections a, b, b,c, c, e, f, and g and at the same time produce a corset which willproperly fit to the bust, waist, and abdomen of the wearer, so as toattain the objects of my invention. The under-arm piece d, shaped asshown, also enables a perfect fit of the corset to be attained at thewaist or trunk line. 7

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The improvement in corsets herein shown and described consisting of thefront section having the pieces a, b, b, c, of the contour shown withthe short bust-piece 1; having convex edges united to similar convexedges on the pieces, and with the elastic connections 0 of varyinglengths united to the pieces a, b, from the waist-line upward; the backsection having the pieces 0', e, f and g of the form shown and with theelastic connections 0 joined to the pieces e,f, and of variable lengthsfrom the waist-line downward, and the underarm piece d tapered from thewaist-line toward the top and bottom and united to the adjacent pieces0, c, of the front and back sections, as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

ABBIE M. KING.

Witnesses:

A. II. BARNHART, J. W. BARNHART, Jr.

